Haw

[hɔː] or [hɔ]

Definition

(noun.) the nictitating membrane of a horse.

(verb.) utter `haw'; 'he hemmed and hawed'.

Editor: Roxanne--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

(n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.

(n.) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

(n.) An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made.

(v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.

(v. i.) To turn to the near side, or toward the driver; -- said of cattle or a team: a word used by teamsters in guiding their teams, and most frequently in the imperative. See Gee.

(v. t.) To cause to turn, as a team, to the near side, or toward the driver; as, to haw a team of oxen.

Typist: Steven

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Hesitate (in speaking), stammer, stutter, falter, hum and haw.

Editor: Manuel

Definition

n. a hedge or enclosure: a field: the berry of the hawthorn.—ns. Haw′-buck a clown; Haw′finch the common grosbeak; Haw′thorn a shrub or small tree much planted both for hedges and for ornament: the white flower of the hawthorn.

n. the nictitating membrane or third eyelid as of a horse; also a disease of this membrane.

v.i. to speak with hesitation or a drawling manner real or affected—hence adj. Haw-haw in an affected tone of voice.—n. a hesitation in speech: loud vulgar laughter.—v.i. to guffaw to laugh boisterously.

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